NYT article about Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, mediation, and the...
From today’s New York Times:How to Solve a Subprime Mess? An Iowan Says, Let’s Caucus A HALF-DOZEN years before subprime mortgages were on the national agenda, Tom Miller, the attorney general of Iowa,...
View ArticleNYT story about Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation
From Sunday’s New York Times:DES MOINES — When Iowa set up a corporation to make student loans more available, it hoped to expand access to college. Now state officials are investigating whether the...
View ArticleNYT: Former Iowa coach C. Vivian Stringer among top 5 impacting sports world...
From Dec. 30 New York Times:She persevered after her husband, Bill, died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving in 1992, and less than five months later guided Iowa to the Final Four.So by the time Imus...
View Article'Stuffy' shows her butter bust of Barack Obama to CNN
Here is a link to the video. The CNN graphic shows her name as “STUFFY.” Surely the Iowa woman is Norma “Duffy” Lyon of Toledo, Iowa - aka The Butter Lady.CNN Description:An Iowa woman created a bust...
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Beetle battle
Gardeners and farmers market vendors I’ve spoken to this spring show consensus that everything is at least two weeks behind our typical Iowa growing season. For the most part, I agree. While it’s...
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Politics is Sport: Just Check the Language
Knockouts. Home runs. Punches and grand slams.Have you noticed how so much political commentary is spiced with sports terms? More than once before and after Wednesday night’s presidential debate, I...
View ArticleIn inaugural speeches, words matter
The New York Times has posted an interactive feature where you can see which words figure most prominently in each president’s inaugural address, beginning with George Washington and ending with George...
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In Jonesboro there is no beer, nor a football team likely to beat Iowa in...
Red Wolves could be the prey, not the predatorsAccording to our friends at the New York Times’ college football blog, The Quad, Arkansas State ranks No. 87 out of the 120 Division I-A teams in college...
View ArticleCoralville fish store in the NY Times
IOWA CITY – On the Fourth of July, the New York Times op-ed page had a piece on a tropical fish store in Coralville devastated by last year’s flood.Now, the store has reopened in a new location, thanks...
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ObamaCare must meddle with not just care, but how we live
by Jonah GoldbergIf I went to a Democratic town hall, I’d probably boo, too. Hence, according to various Democrats and supporters of Obama-Care, I’m paranoid and just a bit unpatriotic.Well, let me...
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Fong wants Culver to make some noise
By James Q. LynchThe GazetteA New York Times progress report on flood recovery in Cedar Rapids caused a ripple in the 2010 race for governor.Gov. Chet CulverChristian FongAfter reading the Times’ story...
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Former Cedar Rapids resident making a splash with her debut novel
By Diana NollenThe Gazette“All my life I will kick things that find their way into my path: shoes, baskets, toilet paper rolls, money, rocks, tennis balls, rolled-up socks, gym bags, Roxanne once or...
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A chat with Joan Rivers
Here are excerpts from Diana Nollen’s Oct. 9 interview with Joan Rivers, via phone from her home office on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) Joan Rivers poses for photographers as...
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Going with the flow: Joan Rivers revels in various streams of her life
By Diana NollenDon’t let her sharp tongue fool you. Joan Rivers is a softy at heart.(Charles William Bush photo) Joan Rivers, who is bringing her brand of humor to the Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque on...
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Wednesday Reading Room — Does Penn State feel deserving of a BCS bowl?
It may happen. It may not. Which is redundant, really. If it may, it obviously may not. Why do people waste words like that?Anyway, Penn State could get a BCS bowl invitation over Iowa even though the...
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Monday Reading Room — Georgia Tech has its own rap video
They’re the GTGs. Swaff and DBay.They represent Georgia Tech. And they rap.The GTGsTheir work is maybe just a tad more polished than Notti Boy’s “Hawkeyes” effort. But what Notti lacks in slickness, he...
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Blinkin’ Christmas History
The lights have been flickering on and off around here this morning, which got me to thinking about the possibility of a holiday without electricity.Gasp. Humbug. But, for now, let’s stay...
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NYT story on gay marriage includes Iowa City families
Dawn BarbouRoske, second from left, leans toward her partner, Jen BarbouRoske, after learning of the Iowa Supreme Court ruling in favor of legalizing gay marriage on April 3, 2009. Between them is...
View ArticleNew York Times corrects UI “Hawkeyes”
IOWA CITY — My favorite correction in quite a while, from the New York Times:Correction: August 3, 2010“An earlier version of this article misstated the athletic nickname for the University of Iowa....
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Czech Village’s flood woes not forgotten
I just got a chance to sit down with the Sunday New York Times (yes, some weeks are like that, even if you do work in the news business) and was glad to see a hefty A-section article about Czech...
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